Sunday, August 16, 2015

Pizza dough with poolish

It has been quite long time I haven't made pizza! 
This time I want to try poolish pizza dough, to have better texture and taste :)

All you need is time! Poolish takes time to develop, so we do not need a lot of yeast.
If you don't have time, use this recipe.

The following recipe is for 4 pizzas!




Poolish ingredients
100g strong flour
100g water
0.3g instant yeast* (= 0.9g fresh yeast)

*For information: 1/8 tsp = 0.39g

1. Mix evenly the ingredients in a bowl

2. wrap the bowl with plastic wrap and leave it at room temperature for 8 hours

Dough ingredients
250g strong flour
8g salt
5g instant yeast (= 15g fresh yeast)
about 120g lukewarm water
some cornflour for dusting

Tomato sauce (from Jamie Oliver's recipe)
olive oil
one clove of minced garlic
1 can of tomato
fresh basil
salt & pepper

1. Place the poolish in the mixing bowl, add in flour,salt and yeast
Add in water little by little and knead the dough for 7mins or until the dough becomes smooth
Note: the dough should not stick around the bowl but slightly at the bottom

2. Place the dough on a slightly floured working surface
Grease the tray with oil, set aside

3. Divide the dough into 4, roll them into ball shape, place them on the tray, slightly sprinkle the surface with flour or grease the surface with oil, then cover them with plastic wrap

Let it rise for 1 hour at room temperature

4. Prepare the tomato sauce - heat olive oil and minced garlic on a pan at medium heat, add in tomato, then basil, salt & pepper, mash the tomato with a wooden spoon and leave it cook 20mins or until it becomes thickened
Set it aside

5. Preheat your oven to 250°c, take out your oven shelf bar, lay a piece of aluminium foil on it and sprinkle some cornflour on it

Place the dough on the floured working surface, floured your hands, then flatten the dough by your palm
Then roll it out with a rolling pin and stretch it in round shape until it becomes 25cm

6. Spread the concentrated tomato sauce on the dough (leave the edge to have some crust to chew!), add the ingredients that you like - mushroom, ham, black olives, mozzarella (no liquid in the package), other cheese...
Note: be careful not to use any wet ingredients -> fresh tomato, mozzarella in package with liquid... you will wet the pizza dough

7. Put the pizza into the oven at the lowest rack, bake for 10-13mins or until the pizza becomes golden color and crispy

8. Take the pizza out and place it on a wooden board
Wait for a minute before the ingredients are well set
Ready to serve!


Enjoy!

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